Medieval England was a dangerous place. Murder rates are estimated to have been between 20 to 50 times higher than today, meaning violent deaths were a regular occurrence. But in a world without ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

A yearly tradition since 1977, the medieval fair in Norman opens Friday in Reaves Park to a full weekend, transporting fairgoers back to the year 1360. The cast of characters shifts from year-to-year, ...

According to the World Population Review, France has the highest number of castles in 2025, 45,000. Second is Italy with less than half this total, 20,000. Germany, meanwhile, has 3,481, and Czechia 1 ...

The 44th annual King Richard's Faire will be switching locations this season, but have no fear. The new spot is close to the ...

Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), archivists have finally been able to peer inside the obscured texts—without ever ...

After examining the ring, experts at Noonans Mayfair came to believe that the artifact had once belonged to a medieval bishop. The village of Shipdham, where Sell found the ring, has a long and rich ...

Percussion was hugely important to the Medieval musician and would have included drums, bells, tambourines to bring rhythmic vitality to the songs of the Troubadours. Another haunting instrument with ...

These seven trails take in stunning landscapes that inspired JMW Turner and Sir Walter Scott, wildlife, cathedrals and cream ...

A NEW map reveals the cheapest places to buy houses in England and Wales - everywhere from untouched countryside to a party city. It's based off house price and wages data gathered by the Office ...

At least until an archivist took another look, setting off a yearslong project to identify and then reassemble the medieval manuscript, which someone in Tudor England had taken apart and used to ...

Literary classics and fabricated fantasies made for television built a plethora of fun among these early fantasy series.